- 110 - B.4 Duty to regulate, monitor and supervise States Parties shall ensure that the institutions, services and facilities responsible for the care or protection of children shall conform with the standards established by competent authorities, particularly in the areas of safety, health, in the number and suitability of their staff, as well as competent supervision.574 Convention on the Rights of the Child, art. 3(3). In addition, article 19(1) of this Convention establishes that: “States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child.” 574 Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 21 on children in street situations, June 21, 20172017, UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/21, para. 45. 575 Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, Report on the twenty-fifth session, Geneva, November 14, 2000, UN Doc. CRC/C/100, para. 688.22. See also, Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 17 on the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts (art. 31), April 17, 2013, UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/17, para. 51. 576 Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, attached to UN General Assembly Resolution 64/142 , February 24, 2010, UN Doc. A/RES/64/142, para. 105. 577 Cf. Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, attached to UN General Assembly Resolution 64/142 , February 24, 2010, UN Doc. A/RES/64/142, para. 105. 578

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